Singles Selection: (Part One) Ladies leave your man at home...

UPDATED 15th June with this weeks top 21 tracks...

21 ~ David Jordan, Move On
20 ~ Rongedal, Just A Minute
19 ~ Ola, Love In Stereo
18 ~ Rongedal, Who Do You Think You're Fooling? (NE)
17 ~ Miley Cyrus, 7 Things (NE)
16 ~ The Feeling, Without You
15 ~ Jesse McCartney, Bleeding Love
14 ~ Blake Lewis, How Many Words?
13 ~ Mariah Carey, Bye Bye
12 ~ Madonna, 4 Minutes
11 ~ The Feeling, Turn It Up
10 ~ McFly, One For The Radio
09 ~ Alphabeat, 10,000 Nights
08 ~ BWO, Lay Your Love On Me
07 ~ Jack McManus, Bang On My Piano
06 ~ Enrique, Can You Hear Me?
05 ~ Madonna, Give It 2 Me
04 ~ BWO, Bells of Freedom
03 ~ Jason Mraz, Lucky
02 ~ Maroon 5/Rihanna, Never See Your Face
01 ~ Kylie, The One (2 weeks)


Excessively important news:

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Hotstufffiles is back. Let me repeat that in bad blogger manners shouty speak. HOTSTUFFFILES IS BACK. I nearly wept. With joy. (Edit - 15th June - well it's a work in progress at the very least!) Digital Technique is also back! And check out these ace blogs i've just discovered and am blogrolling as I type...

• Rock Steady Vibe (he likes Debbie Gibson!!!)
• Work Your Magic
• Strike Curious Poses

Ah summer has turned to rain (not summer rain though like that Belinda Carlisle chick sang about - my fave song of hers btw) and that is fine with me. I am summer scrooge. I don't dig the sun. I don't like being hot. I am a winter bunny! But never mind our fair anglophonic (huh?!) weather, for the ladies are currently singing their little socks off with a variety of summer jams that are guaranteed (note: not a guarantee) to match whatever mood you are in...

THE LAID BACK GROOVE:

Dame Kylie of Minogue occassionally does good fourth single. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi was tres bon, Tears on my Pillow was not. Please Stay was pleasing enough and Come Into My World inviting enough. The One, however, may just well gosh darn be her best fourth single since Shocked! It's not one of those "in your face" almost novelty classics that the non x-factor judging minogue does so excellently (Can't Get You Out of My Head is a prime example) but a lovely relaxed melody that effortlessly soars into your memory and coats you with it's sweet thumping bass. The Freemasons have done an excellent job at swizzling this about a bit into an "amazing" (copyright: popjustice) dance anthem that is easily her best since, well, Wow. And naysayers be gone because apart from a couple of duds, this is only her second album ever where I can easily pick 6-7 singles (Light Years being the other). Bring on Cosmic with a new track AA side for Christmas please - I would be in K-hole heaven then :P

THE CASIO KEYBOARD HIT:

I confess. I am still in love with four minutes. I don't play it quite as much as I used to, and DazPecs and I don't the conveyer belt dance quite as often as before, but every time I hear it I am still a little bit delighted. But bring on the second single I say. Cheap video aside, this shows Hard Mandy still has that one-two punch when it comes to picking top class first and second singles from her albums. Case in point:

• Like A Prayer/Express Yourself
• Erotica/Deeper and Deeper
• Music/Don't Tell Me
• Hung Up/Sorry

All very brilliant. Give It 2 Me is a simple enough groove that you will either love or "meh" over by now. I'm of the school that thinks Hard Candy is the everlasting gobstopper, the gift that keeps on giving - it's not her best album, but it certainly doesn't get worse with each listen. This song, while sounding like a badly dubbed porn video at the start ("Hey Madonna, let me take you to the club") and the entirely unnecessary "get stupid" refrained middle 8, is incessantly catchy, relentlessly perky and rather addictive. I swear Lady Mandy has borrowed L'il Lily Allen's casio keyboard for this number and now refuses to give it back. A definite summer fave of mine. Plus, so the legend goes, for every single or download purchased of Give It 2 Me, Madonna's life is extended by 4 Minutes! Be humanitarian. Choose Life.

THE DEAD ARE RISEN:

It's nothing short of a miracle how Mariah resurrected her ailing career after mentalness and glitter. But here she is, still shimmying away with her lady flaps hanging down the sides of her short shorts. Mariah always does well with sentimental, manipulative tommyrot like Thank God I've Found You, Without You and One Sweet Day - and I always end up loving them and hating myself for it afterwards. Bye Bye has faded for me a little bit. I loved it when i first heard it on her mathmatical equation loving album, but since then I am a little bit "meh" about it. I still think it's a lovely tune and a gorgeous vocal from Mimi, but perhaps not enough to be the huge "we could be together" smash she was probably hoping for. (Sidebar your honour: I have this horrible feeling they will use this song on the x-factor when people don't get through to the next round. That would be more mortifying than when Kym Marsh sang How Do I Live Without You with a montage of her kids on the big screens at Hear'say's concerts. They weren't dead Kym, you just abandoned them for fame and fortune). Time to Migrate to the clubs me feels, mazza.

Other brilliant lady tunes:

• Jem ~ It's Amazing (solid return for the amazing Welsh lass who was amazing before Duffy knew how to beg for Mercy. I so need to do a flashback to her debut album cos I loved it!)
• Miley Cyrus ~ 7 Things (Yes I'm still going on about how ace it is. I've practically memorised it all now, though i can still only get through five things without fucking up. Boo)
• Candy Coated Chaos ~ Treat (Check out Jadion's revamped page for a provisional tracklisting of their upcoming album. I was given an exclusive whirl of this Simon Curtis penned track and I am still floored by how amazingly chart topping worthy it is. Screw Hard Candy. Bring on the chaos!)

Check out the boys singles here...